How to Survive Air Travel – For Real
Photo: Wikipedia I’ve travelled quite a bit by air, I enjoy the travel, but agree it can get uncomfortable and frustrating at times. That said, Craig Mod’s advice on Medium…
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My Top Tools 2014
I haven’t updated my list for Jane Hart’s overall review for some time now, but it’s worth a revisit. This post is prompted by Harold Jarche’s. 10. Word. This could…
The Facebook Research
The Facebook experiments are actually very clever. The content stream is the presentation of everyone else’s material to an individual user. So, in my content stream, I get stuff from…
The Achievement Gap
Response to Annie Murphy Paul, whose newsletter appeared in my email today, on her article, Technology Is Making Achievement Gaps Bigger. In your email you state “I’d love to get…
Personal Learning: A Set of Three Talks
Here are abstracts for three talks I have planned for July in London, UK. For APT 2014 (8th July, Greenwich) https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/ecentre/apt2014/schedConf/index Beyond Free: Open Learning in a Networked World As…
The Pollution and the Wildlife
Hello, Mr.Downes My name is ———- ——. You can call me Amy. I am 15 years old. I live in Thailand. Now I have a project about the environment. And…
New Learning
Those of you who are my age may remember something called ‘new math‘. The idea was to replace fixed-value mathematics, which is characterized with an emphasis on rote learning, with…
The Moncton Shooting and Social Media
During the events of June 4-6 in Moncton I was one of those heavily involved in social media, following and posting to several Facebook threads, Twitter feeds, and the official…
Mass Collaboration Workshop, Day Three
Darren GergleUnderstanding and Bridging the Wikipedia Language Gap There is an extensive literature on Wikipedia, everything from collaboration to participation to embedded bias to the uses of Wikipedia data structures…
Mass Collaboration Workshop, Day Two
(My presentation will appear separately) Collective Knowledge in Social Tagging EnvironmentsJoachim Kimmerle, KMRC Even though it is hard to find good definitions of knowledge, most psychologists would agree that knowledge…
Workshop on Mass Collaboration – Day One
Introduction to the Workshop – Ulrike Cress Why a workshop in mass collaboration? Recent mass phenomena: Wikipedia, tagging, blogging, Scratch, massive open online courses and connectivism, citizen science, maker-space Who…
Foreign Workers and Employment in New Brunswick
Here’s David W. Campbell: This is not an academic question. It happened this week. Now, I suspect there would be folks lined up to tell us everything that was wrong…
Focus on the Words
I’ll return to my other flow of posts in a bit, but in the meantime Dron has responded to my last four, and there are some things worth addressing. In…
Networks, Information, and Complex Adaptive Systems
Under the heading “A believable theory? Actually, yes it is. But…” Jon Dron offers a longish paragraph in two parts. In the first part, he outlines a view of my…
On Death and Dying: Evolution and Networks
As he makes clear in a comment on his recent post, part of Dron’s motivation for depicting connectivism as a ‘family of ideas’ is so that he, too, can be…
Networks and Systems
Let’s move up one paragraph in Jon Dron’s post. We’ve seen already Dron’s notion that connectivism should be thought of as a family of ideas. In this paragraph, Dron states…
Is Connectivism a Broad Family of Ideas?
I think it is worth looking at the end of Jon Dron’s long post to get to the heart of what he finds so wrong about my work. I reserve…
Bell / BellAliant: Get your act together
Long story short: I tried to access CTV online. It wouldn’t accept my login and sent me to a password recovery page. But this page rejected by email address because…
Response to Dron
I don’t want to restate the theses of connectivism as I understand it but it may help readers of Jon Dron’s to identify where his exegesis leads him into misunderstanding.…
Connectivism as Learning Theory
I think the students in the Building Online Collaborative Environments Course has an almost impossible task. Here is their effort to prove that connectivism is a learning theory. “Connectivism has…